From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:28:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 3/4v2] test-lib: provide lazy TIME_COMMAND prereq
Message-ID: <507DA749.30509@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2mwzmxtyb.fsf@igel.home>

Hi Andreas.  I hope you don't mind my nitpickiness, but ...

On 10/16/2012 06:28 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> 
>> Some test want to use the time command (not the shell builtin) and test
>> for its availability at /usr/bin/time.
> 
> An alternative way to suppress the builtin meaning is to quote it, like
> \time.
>
... to be 100% precise, this quoting trick works because 'time' is a
shell keyword, rather than a builtin:

    $ type time
    time is a shell keyword

Regards,
  Stefano